"In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiographyin some of the world's most beloved operas. The richly diverse chapters are unified by a psychoanalytic approach to the nuances of unconscious mental life and emotional experience as they unfold synergistically in opera's music, words, and drama. Opera creates a unique bridge between thought and feeling, mind and body, and conscious and unconscious that offers fertile ground for psychological exploration of profound human truths. Each piece is written in a colorful and non-technical manner that will appeal to mental health professionals, musicians, academics, and general readers wishing better to understand and appreciate opera as an art form"--
In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiography in some of the world’s most beloved operas.
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1 Psychoanalysis and Opera: A Felicitous Match |
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2 The Internal World of Don Giovanni |
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3 Across the Great Divide: Reflections on the Moral Reversal in Mozart's The Magic Flute |
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4 Lucia di Lammermoor: An Intersection on the Oral and Aural Roads |
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5 Transformation Through the Other: Senta and The Flying Dutchman |
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51 | (10) |
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6 The Orpheus of All Secret Misery: The Expression of Profound Grief in Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde |
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7 The Dark Matter of Wagner's Dream: Chaos and Creativity in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg |
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76 | (15) |
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8 Evil as Sadistic Perversion in Tosca |
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91 | (17) |
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9 Sliding Walls and Glimpses of the Other in Puccini's Madama Butterfly |
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108 | (12) |
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10 Elektra: Traumatic Loss and the Impossibility of Mourning |
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120 | (14) |
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11 Yearning for Intimacy: Bela Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle |
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134 | (16) |
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12 Reflections on Applied Analysis and a Secret Program in Alban Berg's Wozzeck |
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150 | (16) |
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13 Janacek's Eternal Feminine: The Makropulos Affair |
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166 | (16) |
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14 Billy Budd: A Study in Envy and Repression |
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15 Sendak and Knussen's Wliere the Wild Things Are: A Developmental Journey |
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Steven H. Goldberg, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and a personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. In addition to many publications, he has co-chaired Opera on the Couch in collaboration with the San Francisco Opera.
Lee Rather, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. As a teacher, presenter, and writer he has a long-time interest in the unconscious aspects of creativity in music, literature, and the arts.
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